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Elsa S. Foster
Elsa S. Foster was born in Tampico, Mexico, a port city on the Gulf of Mexico. In fifth grade, she moved with her two brothers and three sisters to Mexico City. Her father headed t...показать большеElsa S. Foster was born in Tampico, Mexico, a port city on the Gulf of Mexico. In fifth grade, she moved with her two brothers and three sisters to Mexico City. Her father headed the accounting department at Warner Brothers film distributing company.
After finishing elementary school, she attended the Maddox Academy, a small English school in Mexico City. Subsequently, she took three years of piano and related subjects at the School of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Later, working as a bilingual secretary to the manager of Warner Brothers, she moved on to study music, English and French at Alma College in Ontario, Canada. Elsa then met her American husband-to-be while she was working for the Graduate Dean at Mexico City College. He was a reporter on leave from the San Antonio Light, eventually becoming assistant managing editor of the Austin American Statesman. During that time, he published a novella, Tejanos, about Hispanics fighting for Texan independence at the Alamo.
The author has been widowed since l990 and now lives in Wimberley, Texas. Her three sons are married and live nearby. Currently she has nine grandchildren.
The original manuscript was written in 1973 while she and her family lived in Buda, Texas. She thought that her relatives and friends would enjoy stories about her marriage and her sinking roots down in Texas to rear a family.
Since her marriage in l956, Mexico has undergone fundamental changes, and much of the way of life that existed before then no longer applies. Mexican society has adopted many American habits and customs and the gulf that existed between these cultures has narrowed, including the notions of time, death, and family responsibilities.показать меньше